A Reproducible Data Workflow

McCrea Cobb

Refuge Inventory and Monitoring
mccrea_cobb@fws.gov
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Emma Schillerstrom

Refuge Inventory and Monitoring
emma_shillerstrom@fws.gov
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Jonah Withers

Fisheries and Ecological Services
jonah_withers@fws.gov
JonahWithers-USFWS

https://github.com/USFWS/data-workflow-presentation

Witch Occupancy at Tetlin NWR

Visualize and summarize results

Manual Workflow

• Move data into Excel
• Create summary tables and plots
• Cut/paste into Word doc
• Reformat to match document

Scripted Workflow

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• Tons of options, R packages
• Static versus dynamic visualizations
• Depends on output file type (html vs. Word)

R Workflow

Visualize and summarize results

Report results

• R can output to many formats
• Mention the Alaska Refuge reporting series Quarto and Rmarkdown templates

Share products

• You can share your products through scripts
  • Examples
    • Emailing
    • Publish report or app to server (Posit Connect)
    • Save to data repository, share link

Preserve it all

• You can preserve your products using scripts

Demonstrate reuse

• You can replicate these steps if it is all scripted
• Documentation is important!

Where to go from here

• NCTC trainings
• Resources available
• Who to reach out to